The Ocean’s Song (Victor Hugo Poems)
We walked amongst the ruins famed in story Of Rozel-Tower, And saw the boundless waters stretch in glory And heave ...
We walked amongst the ruins famed in story Of Rozel-Tower, And saw the boundless waters stretch in glory And heave ...
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! ...
though there's not much faith left and very little snow this scene of wimborne minster still makes its christmas show ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
To tag, or not to tag: that is the problem: Whether 'tis nobler in the whole to endure The slings ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
You'll wait a long, long time for anything much To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud And the ...
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swiftewd greyhound follow, Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard ...
(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; Mountains and seas divide ...
The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks. They have arranged to meet the ...
Chequer'd with woven shadows as I lay Among the grass, blinking the watery gleam, I saw an Echo-Spirit in his ...
Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life's gold can so refine And by thy art divine Change mortal weakness ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Adieu dear object of my Love's excess, And with thee all my hopes of happiness, With the same fervent and ...
Two birds loved in a flurry of red feathers like a burst cottonball, continuing while I drove over them. I ...
Oh! beautiful Oban with your lovely bay, Your surroundings are magnificent on a fine summer-day; There the lover of the ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a terrible ...
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
As I stood upon the sandy beach One morn near Pentland Ferry, I saw a beautiful brigantine, And all her ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Tell me a word that you've often heard, yet it makes you squint when you see it in print! Tell ...
If haply thou, O Desdemona Morn, Shouldst call along the curving sphere, "Remain, Dear Night, sweet Moor; nay, leave me ...
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